Saturday, March 26, 2011

Noun

S: (n) society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

S: (n) club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order (a formal association of people with similar interests) "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Verb

S: (v) snuff out, extinguish (put an end to; kill) "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"

S: (v) snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights) "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"